PayCaptain
48
Quality Score
Emerging
PayCaptain
by PayCaptain
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PayCaptain is an iOS app from PayCaptain in the Finance category, currently rated 4.2★ across 17 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 48: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Finance app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
Total estimate
$80K
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 33/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
3.4
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.8
Market Position
1.5
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.2★ across 17 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 391d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (391d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Multilingual (26 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (17 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v7.0
Improved Login Experience
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PayCaptain
- Developer
- PayCaptain
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth17 ratings+750% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
With PayCaptain you can:
Enjoy graphical and interactive payslips with our built-in friendly chatbot to answer questions about your pay
Get up to £200 per pay period, every week for your weekly personal expenses (automated/free wage advance)
Get a PayCaptain account with a Visa Debit Card to separate some funds from your main bank account
Make every pay day a ‘save day’ with automatic payments to your savings account
Make tax free donations to your favourite charity and see your philanthropy on each payslip… View full description on the official store →
Enjoy graphical and interactive payslips with our built-in friendly chatbot to answer questions about your pay
Get up to £200 per pay period, every week for your weekly personal expenses (automated/free wage advance)
Get a PayCaptain account with a Visa Debit Card to separate some funds from your main bank account
Make every pay day a ‘save day’ with automatic payments to your savings account
Make tax free donations to your favourite charity and see your philanthropy on each payslip… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 33 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v7.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +21📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-06
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 0.00 (dropped 4.20★)
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 5 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.63636★ | 22 | 3.63636★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 17 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
PayCaptain is a small / niche iOS app in the finance space with weak public traction — only 17 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PayCaptain make per month?▴
Our model estimates PayCaptain earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 17 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like PayCaptain?▴
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Who makes PayCaptain?▴
PayCaptain is published by PayCaptain on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is PayCaptain's BU Score?▴
PayCaptain has a BU Score of 48/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.